We have recently switched over to use an engine-based implementation for <input type=text>.  In doing so, our text fields are now able to use many useful css capabilities that weren’t available before.  border-radius, border-image, and background-image are just a few that will now work with our text fields.

I spent a few hours hooking up WebCore’s text rendering engine to SVG, and now we have basic SVG text support going.

SVG has now been enabled by default in nightly builds.

Eric Seidel has just landed support for a new target in the WebCore project that lets you compile an experimental port of KSVG.